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The run-up to the international climate talks in Paris coincides with the period in which the government will make its decision on new airport capacity. When it came to power in 2010 the Tory/Lib Dem coalition ruled out any new runways but just two years later, under pressure from big business, it set up the...

Up to 80 Freedom Riders joined a protest at Sheffield train station on Tuesday of this week.

Also: fight down the line at national rail over train staff job cuts

Workers at the Scottish state-owned ferry operator CalMac were set to begin industrial action on Wednesday of this week.

Also: Strikes at Merseyrail, Bus bosses back off from attacks

The RMT union has announced it will recommend its members accept a new offer from Network Rail bosses. It begins a national ballot this week.

Cleaners working for facilities firm Interserve on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) began a 48-hour strike on Wednesday of last week over pay and working conditions. Also: Tube workers fight rosters, strike on TransPennine Express

The RMT union suspended a planned strike at Network Rail after bosses made a new offer. 

The RMT and TSSA unions suspended industrial action set for Monday and Tuesday of this week at Network Rail after bosses made a new offer. 

Tube workers’ unions have declared an official dispute with London Underground.

Workers at the Scottish state-owned ferry operator CalMac began balloting for industrial action on Wednesday of last week.

Up to 25,000 workers at Network Rail were set to strike across Britain next week in the first national rail strike for 20 years, writes Raymie Kiernan